Christmas Europe
Christmas Europe
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Christmas $16.95 Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmasfrom its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday’s spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOW For three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem “The Night Before Christmas”? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus’s look in an advertising campaign? |
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Christmas Market, Budapest, Hungary,Europe $19.99 Christmas Market, Budapest, Hungary,Europe Photographic Print by Christian Kober. Product size approximately 9 x 12 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Christmas Merchandise at Stall of Christmas Stern Advent Markt, Salzburg, Austria, Europe $24.99 Christmas Merchandise at Stall of Christmas Stern Advent Markt, Salzburg, Austria, Europe Photographic Print by Richard Nebesky. Product size approximately 12 x 16 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints. |
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Fred and Friends Doomed: ‘Crystal Skull’ Shotglass $9.00 Treat yourself to a couple of shots with this Doomed Shot Glass. This formidable shot glass is our tribute to the Skull of Doom, which Mayan legend claims has the power of life and death, the power to heal or to smite, the power to create miracles. We make no claims beyond these: our Doomed Shot Glass will hold 2.5 ounces of your favorite beverage and will stare right in your eye as you down your… |
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Dark Metal Square Vintage Design Napkin Holder $12.99 This is a new piece, that is distressed to look vintage. Cast iron style, with scroll accents, it measures 7.5 inches square. Imported…. |
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Fox Run Linzer Cookie Cutter Set $7.49 Make cookies inspired by the famous jam-filled linzer torte using the Fox Run six piece linzer set. European style linzer cookies made easy, comes with linzer cutter and 6 interchangeable center cutter designs. Boxed with recipe and instructions, metal…. |
Works Of Kindness Throughout Christmas
"Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, please put a penny in the old man's hat... "Remember that child's rhyme from your childhoold? I sure do.Christmas is a time for giving. To the poor, as well as to our own families.
Sometimes we lose sight of that.The commercialization of Xmas over the last twenty years or so has turned Yuletide into a present-giving frenzy, particularly if you have kids. And if you don't, the Xmas period is likely to consist of a lot of parties around the Xmas tree, often with Kris Kringle type Xmas gift giving, and regularly way too much alcohol.
Yuletide stockings and Xmas decorations are too often overtaken by indulgence in Xmas food, and the ever present Xmas eggnog and other alcohol - lots of it.
Is this a nice thing? Well, I suspect it depends to some degree on your perspective of what Yuletide customs are all about. Those among us who hook on to any excuse for a booze-up, the Xmas party period must be amazing. Hang up a few Yuletide ornaments in the workplace or the social club or wherever, and have a boozy Xmas party - it could be your most likely chance to start an office romance.
But I suspect many of us have become moderately jaded incidentally Yuletide is used as an excuse for Yuletide parties starting in Nov and running right through December to Xmas Eve. Get togethers with your workmates is not a bad thing, of course - it's pleasant to socialize once in a while rather than being focused on work. But it is the over-indulgence which many folks find somewhat OTT.
Plenty of our children do not have any idea of the real meaning of Xmas. To many, Yuletide trees and Xmas ornaments mean Santa Claus and Xmas gifts - lots and lots of them. Even those kids who can tell you what Xmas is all about are apt to forget the actual meaning of Yuletide when deluged with Yuletide gifts.
Whatever happened to the actual spirit of Yuletide, when folk would cook 2 normal Xmas dinners - one for their own family, and one which they might take out and give to a less lucky family who maybe lived just down the road?
Whatever happened to the real spirit of Yuletide, when children would carefully select and wrap up their loved but still in good condition Yuletide gifts from last year, and take them to the local children's hospital, and essentially hand the Yuletide gift to a sick kid simply to see the grin on their faces?
These days folk are much more likely to give cash to varied charities ( which is not such an awful thing ) than do acts of service, or really give specially selected gifts of food or toys. But money is much more impersonal.
So how about making an attempt to make a change this Yuletide? Get out and give something personal - to someone you can look in the eye when you are giving the Xmas food or Yuletide gift - and say from deep inside - "Merry Christmas".
Click here : keep Christ in Christmas and http://realreasonforseason.com/category/christmas-witness for more info.
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10 Sets per Pack! Venice Adjustable Feature Masquerade Mask with Gold Flour (Golden & Blue) $14.57 Masks are used throughout Europe, and are frequently integrated into regional folk celebrations and customs. Masquerade mask can eliminate the barriers between different classes and races. Besides, masquerade mask also increases mystery. |
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10 Sets per Pack! Venice Adjustable Feature Masquerade Mask with Gold Flour (White & Orange) $14.57 The word "mask" came via French masque and either Italian maschera or Spanish m??scara. This shows that modern masquerade mask originated in Europe. Now in Europe and America, ladies still like wearing feature masquerade masks in the dance party. |
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1888 in Europe: Year of the Three Emperors, 1888 in Norway, Christmas Meeting 1888, 1888 in Germany $16.97 New - Chapters: Year of the Three Emperors, 1888 in Norway, Christmas Meeting 1888, 1888 in Germany. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Year of the Three Emperors, or the Year of the Three Kaisers, (German: Dreikaiserjahr) refers to the year 1888 during the German Empire in German history. The year 1888 is conside |
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